Quotes About Injustice

Try to free a slave with ignorance / Try and teach a whore about romance

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening so you might as well.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.

Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8

One of the lesser-known contributions of the great Harriet Tubman was the devotion of her life after the war to a similar project. The woman who personally led three hundred slaves to freedom, who was a spy and "general" for the Union, spent her final years trying to establish the John Brown Home for the Aged. When the government refused to give her a full veteran's pension, the former general sold fruit and had a biography published to raise money for the institution.

Added to residential segregation was the powerlessness of blacks to keep vice out of their communities.

If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at your mom. She left you alone. That wasn't right.

They're trying to kill me. Death by indignity, the nastiest kind of all.

Amnesty International should list all daughters as prisoners of war.

The Indians are what we have made them," said Dr. Reed. "Every war between us and the red man has been precipitated by broken treaties. If they have attacked the settlers, it is because we have made them what they are.

I consider how we have crowded them and dispossessed them from the Atlantic on westward. They have been driven and harried and cheated. Perhaps they feel that by taking captives they will convince us to stop.

Così la trascinarono di nuovo verso il suo destino. Verso il carro, verso il mondo necessario dell'uomo bianco che sembrava non volerla.

Britt said, "I closed the deal on Lottie Durgan and we are talking about her grandmother, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. I can get her cheap." "Jesus," said the major. Here was a black man bargaining for the price of a white woman. The world had turned upside down.

No passado, os grandes homens da Europa em sessões magnas, festins e banhos de champanhe dividiram o continente negro em grandes e boas fatias, escravizaram, torturaram, massacraram e deportaram as almas destas terras. Hoje, gente oriunda das antigas potências colonizadoras diz que dá a sua mão desinteressada para ajudar os que sofrem. É preciso acreditar na mudança

Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.

One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge men's consciousness.

From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia

Conditioned by the position of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor traveled, much less listened to Beethoven.